Constructive Mathematicians Who Have Made Major Contributions To Constructivism
- Leopold Kronecker (old constructivism, semi-intuitionism)
- L. E. J. Brouwer (forefather of intuitionism)
- A. A. Markov (forefather of Russian school of construcitivism)
- Arend Heyting (formalized intuitionistic logic and theories)
- Per Martin-Löf (founder of constructive type theories)
- Errett Bishop (promoted a version of constructivism which is consistent with classical mathematics)
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